About Us

Our vision is the elimination of avoidable blindness and vision loss by the year 2020 and the full participation of people who are blind or vision impaired in the community.

Our Mission

Our mission is to be the national advocate to government working in partnership with members for policy change and for the funding of programs that will eliminate avoidable blindness and vision impairment and ensure community participation of people who are blind or vision impaired in Australia and our region.

Vision 2020 Australia

Established in October 2000, Vision 2020 Australia is part of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, a global initiative of the World Health Organisation and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

As we count down to 2020, Vision 2020 Australia’s role is to ensure that eye health and vision care remains high on the health, disability and international development agendas of governments in Australia —ensuring that Australia fulfils its commitments under the World Health Assembly Resolutions and Action Plan, Universal eye health: a global action plan 2014-2019.